Researchers find a huge — and recent — meteorite crater beneath Greenland’s ice sheet
The crater is among the 25 largest ever found — and could be as young as 12,000 years old.
November 16, 2018
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Beneath Greenland’s ice sheet, scientists have discovered, is a near-perfectly round depression created when a big meteorite fell from space and struck the northeastern part of the island.
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